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Reacting badly to “door busters”

Apparently, I have an almost irrational loathing to the phrase “door busters.” I’ve heard it before, but this season, it is so pervasive, even though I rarely watch live TV. Just talking about it with someone at work, I’m told I spoke of the word VERY LOUDLY.

It’s the idea that, in order to be a good consumer, one needs to aggressively bash in the store’s entryway. Having to fight the crowd to buy “stuff” that may be on sale seems, well, unseemly.

The intrusion of shopping on the previously perfect holiday of Thanksgiving infuriates me. The store opening on Thursday at 8 or 9 p.m. means that some underpaid folks have to push themselves away from family and friends to serve frenetic shoppers. That is unless the workers decide to strike.

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Don’t you know that avaricious capitalism is what makes America great?! /s
Yes, the business plans of MalWart required my brother to inhale his Thanksgiving dinner this year before rushing off to service his patrons because he’s ‘lucky to have a job.’ Screw the Family, there’s money to be made!

Friday morning I drove around the City of Albany doing errands. Traffic was almost non-existent. At the bank, the supermarket, the PO I was almost the only customer. Everyone working at these places was relaxed and friendly.

Then I walked into Honest Weight Co-op… you know, organic produce, localism, etc. The parking lot was nearly empty and there were hardly any customers. I stood in the doorway, attracted a bit of attention and announced loudly, “So where is everybody? At the mall? Is everybody at WALMART?”

Lots of sheepish smiles and a few ad hoc lame explanations. That was fun.

I totally agree! To open stores Thanksgiving night is horrible. There is nothing in a store that would get me to rise at dark-thirty and stand in line. I did shop on Black Friday but went at the more reasonable hour of….noon.